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Not really, you can't get child labor on MTurk (officially). But hey, you get badges, and you help the community by providing them training data they'll lock up in a server and use to monopolize more sectors of the economy. Everyone wins when google can do better sentiment analysis on your non-english emails.
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It isn't slavery when there's people willing to do free work for Google (as perverse as it may sound). Just look at their product forums.
People want free stuff and then complain if some entity asks help.
How's seeking unpaid help digital slavery? You must be very charitable person.
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Do you really want raw, unmoderated user generated content?
Yes! They can provide both filtered & unfiltered data.
I guess mechanical Turk was too expensive for Google. I’m all for collaborative, open source projects but it seems kind of skeevy for a company as profitable as Google to basically set up free labor for themselves. I hope there are some fun 4chan stories of people breaking classification.
They should avoid using the word community, if side product of these contributions are going to empower their sales. I had been contributing to Google Maps for more than 8 years now, but in return all i get is stars and maximum an invite to a meetup. But, when i saw the other side of Google Maps with respect to consuming it through API usage point of view, the prices are not affordable in long term. Also, there is a…
you're getting the use of the service..... for free...Yeesh! Consider before Google Maps. You'd either (a) buy a local map every few years (b) pay for a car navigation system. Now Google comes along and offers you a free maps and navigation service and you're complaining that if you try to make it better you're being screwed over? IT'S FREE!
In overall the point is similar to everyone's complaint on Google, "User data is being used to their favour" but my expectation is for Google to openly and visibly tell that so all the competitors have level playing ground.
Ultimately crowdsource leads to UBI powered by Google. It's inevitable. But one entity controlling our lives is very hard to accept even if it is Google.
> Audio validation: Listen to a short audio clip and determine if the pronunciation sounds natural in your language.
If this is something you're interested in doing, I recommend contributing to Mozilla's Common Voice instead. Common Voice builds freely licensed (CC-0) voice datasets that can be used by anyone, not just Google:
I was expecting to be pessimistic, but Google actually releases the datasets under a permissive license (CC-By 4.0). Awesome! https://research.google/tools/datasets/open-images-extended-... https://github.com/google-research-datasets/hiertext
Food compare: Compare the characteristics of two food images.
Response rating: Evaluate the natural-ness of a bot response.
Audio donation: Record your voice to improve speech technology.
Food facts: Tell us if a food dish has particular characteristics.
Food labeller: Tell us what food an image contains.
Semantic similarity: Judge whether two phrases have the same meaning.
Chart understanding: Judge whether charts are understandable and trustworthy.
Glide type: Glide your fingers on the keyboard to type the text that you see.
Audio validation: Listen to a short audio clip and determine if the pronunciation sounds natural in your language.
Image label verification: Tell us if images are tagged correctly.
Image capture: Collect and share photos of your part of the world.
Translation: Translate phrases and words into different languages.
Translation validation: Select which phrases are translated correctly.
Handwriting recognition: Look at handwriting and type the text that you see.
Sentiment evaluation: Decide if a sentence in your language is positive, negative or neutral.
Smart camera (Android Lollipop 5.0+ required): Point at an object and see if the camera can guess what it is.
Even in those 3 datasets, Google does not disclose the proportion/percentage of the crowdsourced contributions that are released publicly. I would not contribute to Crowdsource with the expectation that my contributions would help build a freely licensed dataset.